Built Quote by Bernard de Mandeville Download Open image “Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,” — Bernard de Mandeville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Hospitals Pride Together Vanity Virtue
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive;… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
